My phase will happen before your phase, the way they are currently doing things.

It’s going to be great once every American is jobless and has all the free time to pursue hobbies involving CEOs, and the orange and rodent cancers in the Federal government. Think of all the possibilities!

That helps slightly but in the absence of radar, balloons, and satellite telemetry, it doesn’t help accuracy of forecast beyond, “it might rain here in a few hours, it might not.” Not much different in functional usefulness than looking at the trees to see if it’s going to rain.

I have a watch with a barometric pressure sensor, it will alert me to potential maybe coming storms, but only potential maybe, not what direction, what intensity, what hail potential, what wind shear. All it knows is the air pressure is changing pretty fast. It is right maybe one in ten times. (My location tends to have very rapid weather changes, in general, however.)

And outside of that, ground stations don’t really help to keep air traffic safely in the skies at all, lacking jet stream telemetry, which is calculated and estimated on a daily basis to figure out which sky highways flights should use. Not just passengers either, most commercial passenger airliners have a portion of their cargo hold sold to shipping (and make more money on that than the seats). USPS, other shipping companies all ship in cargo holds. Water transport would be affected as well of course, as well as rail and truck to a lesser degree due to floods/landslides/blizzards or random sideways Texas sandstorms blowing semi trucks over.

With flights, this means fuel estimates will be off, tailwind or headwind is stronger or weaker than predicted, you’re landing at an alternate airport. This means more random turbulence and/or injuries mid-flight. More grounded flights, more flight delays. More potential for collision. Especially with neutered ATC in concert.

It is all interconnected, and all being arbitrarily destroyed without any thought into why it all exists.

If we took the money we wasted larping around being “world police” our taxes would stay the same and we could all have universal healthcare and insurance/pharma companies could get bent. Of course, that whole fascism thing became the bigger fish to fry, for now.

The Omegle of Signal. Or the “I’m Feeling Lucky” of Signal.

FTA it seems:

• American Express
• WPP (ad agency)
• Omnicom (ad agency)
• Interpublic Group (ad agency)
• Publicis (ad agency)
• “increasing number of small brands”
• Stagwell (ad agency) possibly, as quoted in the article as saying, “The political boycotts and things are dissipating because companies are realizing that taking one side and the other is a dangerous place to be.”

A quick AI search for some of who uses/d those ad agencies:

WPP:

• HSBC
• Rolex
• Samsung
• Shell Oil
• Unilever
• Nestlé

Omnicom:

• Apple
• PepsiCo
• McDonalds
• Nissan
• Pfizer
• Unilever

Interpublic Group (IPG):

• American Express
• AstraZeneca
• GM
• Nestlé
• Amazon
• L’Oréal

Publicis:

• Google
• Dodge
• Humira
• Samsung
• Nestlé
• L’Oréal

Stagwell:

• Anheuser-Busch InBev
• JP Morgan
• Uber Eats
• AT&T
• Mastercard

How is California the bastion of Fascism? San Fran was to be the Starfleet headquarters. Turns out endoftheworld.swf got it wrong too. Cali should just be shat into the ocean to disappear, unlike the Flash video. What a waste of a good state that literally could wield power to stop DC. Is Man in the High Castle actually canon??

Well, Newsweek is out as news. They should have followed up with factual history about how these parties switched. (Where are the whigs in all this???)

America always being 2 party, in my own hindsight, should have been suspect. The world is not binary.

Not that I had control of when or where I was born.

Likely higher than that due to piss poor reporting. I recall seeing an alt government account hinting it could have already been in the 2000s a few weeks back but they couldn’t speak officially.

Pull the fuse to the telematics/SOS/cellular radio on your car. Don’t bring any health trackers or airtags. No Bluetooth anything. If you have a toll transponder, remove it from your car. Probably should disable the Bluetooth in the car as well, wifi as well if it has it. Anything that can broadcast a beacon can be tracked.

Asked an AI about this in general:

Prior to this law, only 66 out of 484 water systems in Utah practiced fluoridation, with Salt Lake City being the largest municipality affected.

Woah.

(Source AI chose: https://apnews.com/article/utah-fluoride-ban-43f67153beb3e06ada9d782655fb15de )

The cuts also affected the launching of weather balloons, less are being launched now daily, so current knowledge of the jet stream across the US will be more limited. This means daily routing of flights through the various air “lanes” gets more challenging, more unexpected air, predicted fuel burn rates will be wrong if a tailwind isn’t blowing as fast as estimated, or headwinds are stronger.

Likely won’t increase crashes too much, but will increase turbulence, in-flight injuries, rerouting, and detour landings.

(As well as forecasts for the ground being less accurate.)

It’s America vs MAGA. Many versus few, while the few try to remove humans from the many.

Maybe corpo media will finally realize that they won’t have any readers/viewers/listeners when there’s no jobs and nobody left to consume their media.

Unlikely though. Status quo is so comfortable until it’s too late.

Had a friend back in similar age area, they went one evening, “I’m going to the ATM to take out $20 so I have money for tomorrow before the overdraft I’m already going to get breaks my debit card.”

I also had similar overdraft hell story when I was multi-overdrafted rent was entering past due and was on the verge of being homeless waiting for my next paycheck to stay afloat, drove home from work with the engine misfiring nearly dead out of fuel. Went home and scraped a “rare” (like an old quarter or penny, nothing fancy, one of those odd things family gives you) coin jar for enough money to buy a couple gallons of gas and food for my pet.

Wouldn’t wish that dogshit on anyone, it is literally criminal greed that can destroy a person in under a week.

we can probably expect crickets from them

They’re mostly out-of-shape larpers that just want to be able to buy their overpriced toys with no actual patriotism or balls. Very similar to the current administration and the unelected muskrat that are taking their rights and freedoms away, really.

Voter registration is handled at the state level, not Federal. It’s a problem that has never existed. Just Mango Mussolini trying to Nazi harder.

Voter registration in the United States

(Emphasis mine.)

All U.S. states and territories, except North Dakota, require voter registration by eligible citizens before they can vote in federal, state and local elections. In North Dakota, cities in the state may register voters for city elections, and in other cases voters must provide identification and proof of entitlement to vote at the polling place before being permitted to vote. Voter registration takes place at the county level in many states or at the municipal level in several states. Many states set cutoff dates for registration or to update details, ranging from two to four weeks before an election, while 25 states and Washington, D.C. have same-day voter registration, which enables eligible citizens to register or update their registration on the same day they cast their vote. In states that permit early voting, and have voter registration, the prospective voter must be registered before casting a vote.

Finally! Hackers won’t know where I was born! Wipes brow.

Wonder why they decided to change that.

It stagnated for too long and now dumb goons are in charge. Go figure. People like Boobert get into politics when they should have gone on reality tv. Never taking the job seriously.

They are some of the dumbest people imaginable. So there is hope.

That guy has such a punchable face.